Islamic State militants are planning “indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians” in Britain on a scale similar to those staged by the Irish Republican Army 40 years ago, the head of the country’s new terrorism watchdog said. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph published on Sunday, Max Hill, the lawyer tasked with overseeing British laws … Read more
Pakistan’s military on Wednesday launched a nationwide anti-terrorist operation days after a series of bloody extremist assaults killed dozens of people across the country, the military said. “Pakistan army launches ‘Operation Radd-ul-Fassad’ (elimination of violence) across the country,” a military statement said. The announcement came after army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired a high-level … Read more
Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as Islamabad continued a violent crackdown on extremists after multiple attacks last week raised fears of a militant resurgence. Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of harbouring the militants who carried out last week’s attacks, which killed more than 100 people … Read more
The USS Carl Vinson is no stranger to the region US aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson has started what it calls “routine operations” in the South China Sea, with a fleet of supporting warships. The deployment comes days after China’s foreign ministry warned Washington against challenging Beijing’s sovereignty in the region. China claims several … Read more
A US aircraft carrier strike group is patrolling in the South China Sea, the US Navy said Saturday, days after Beijing told Washington not to challenge its sovereignty in the waterway. China asserts ownership of almost all of the resource-rich waters despite rival claims from several Southeast Asian countries. It has rapidly built reefs into … Read more
At least 70 people died Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan, police said, in the deadliest attack to hit the militancy-plagued country so far in 2017. The Islamic State group claimed the attack in a statement carried by the Amaq propaganda agency linked to the Sunni Muslim jihadist group. … Read more
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the town of Sehwan, in Sindh province, police said. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the attack, which has been … Read more
Two teenagers will be charged with planning to carry out a terror attack in Sydney, according to police. The man and woman, both 19, are accused of “conspiracy to do an act, or acts in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act or acts”, the Australian Federal Police said. Local media reported the pair are … Read more
Bamako (AFP) – Malian officials said Friday two suspected jihadists have been arrested after they planned to stage a suicide attack in the capital Bamako during the France-Africa summit earlier this month. “In two separate operations in Bamako on Thursday, Malian special intelligence operatives arrested two jihadists who were preparing to commit a large scale … Read more
Al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate says a group linked to it carried out the suicide attack that killed at least 50 people in northern Mali. A vehicle packed with explosives detonated at a camp housing soldiers and members of rival armed groups in the region’s main city, Gao. Mali’s northern desert region has been restive since … Read more
Twelve soldiers have been killed and two are missing after an attack by Islamist militants near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali, the army has said. Insurgents who carried out the attack did so on pick-up trucks and motorbikes, waving black flags. The soldiers were in the area to guard Burkina Faso’s long and porous border … Read more
The Islamic State group says it was behind a car and knife rampage at a US college that left 11 people injured. Monday’s attack at Ohio State University was carried out by one of its students, Somali-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the authorities said. The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency called the 18-year-old business undergraduate a … Read more
By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the imperial Roman “Mare Nostrum” – our common sea. Rome’s hegemony around its “Mare Nostrum” reconfigured the map of various nations-states and ethnic groups under one economic and military security umbrella. Thus, the imperial Roman republic found … Read more
A man was shot dead after stabbing a policeman guarding the perimeter wall of the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi and trying to take his gun, a Kenyan police official said Thursday. The policeman who had been stabbed opened fire in self-defense and killed the attacker, said Vitalis Otieno, the officer in charge of the … Read more
Islamic State fighters and the Pakistani Taliban on Monday said they killed a police official in northwest Pakistan, the second attack in the south Asian nation claimed by the Middle East-based militant group in just over a month. The killings follow an announcement by the military last month that it had stemmed Islamic State’s attempts … Read more
Burkina Faso’s police chief said on Sunday that his forces shot dead a jihadist overnight in Ouagadougou and were searching for two others in the latest sign of growing insecurity in the West African country. The incident was the first deadly clash with Islamist militants in the capital since an attack on the Splendid Hotel … Read more
Despite the failure of the Middle East policy, the United States has not abandoned its strategy aimed at global domination to be reached with the help of military might. Libya, Somalia and Mali may become a bridgehead for an intervention to encompass other countries under the pretext of fighting terrorists. President Obama, a Nobel Peace … Read more
The US is investing at least $50m in a military air base in Niger that will be capable of deploying drones. The US already has a presence in the capital Niamey, where it shares an airbase with France’s anti-Islamist force, Operation Barkhane. MQ-9 Reaper drones are stationed there. But the new facility, in the central … Read more
Three years after Westgate, I remain horrified by the cowardice and inhumanity of this attack on innocent people enjoying a day out. My heart goes out again to all those who lost loved ones, and to those still living with the injuries they suffered that day. The scars for many will take a long time … Read more
Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has told western leaders that shutting their doors to migrants who seek entry into their countries is not the solution to winning the war against terrorism. Terror attacks have heightened within the last few years with parts of Africa also experiencing same in the hands of Boko Haram and Al … Read more